Some citizens and politicians are designing “countdown” imageries. Here is Sinem‘s (my wife, by the way) broken bulb series: More details on her Instagram account. Another countdown from Ahmet Şık (TİP Deputy) was found on his Instagram account. Another countdown is from a Theatre account: @sahneden A Twitter user, Zano Baksa, circulates Obama campaign-style … Read more
Scoop: Turkey and Hungary Not Invited to Biden’s Big Democracy Summit Biden spurned NATO allies that are dismantling their democracies. ECtHR convicts Turkey for violating Peace Academics’ rights Click to read the article in Turkish The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has convicted Turkey for violating the rights of three of the academics who were … Read more
Official: Turkey brings elections forward to May 14, Erdoğan announces Turkey will hold the presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has announced. A presidential decree concerning the decision will be published in the Official Gazette tomorrow, the president said at a press conference in Ankara, the capital. 36 parties qualify … Read more
A Rival for Erdogan Emerges as Opposition Parties Pick a Candidate NYT > Turkey by Ben Hubbard and Gulsin Harman Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the head of Turkey’s largest opposition party, and his allies are looking to unseat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who they say has damaged the country’s democracy. Who is Kilicdaroglu, Turkish opposition’s presidential candidate? Turkish … Read more
It will be a difficult but a better walk… Opposition continues its walk without Good Party, to announce Kılıçdaroğlu as candidate İstanbul, Ankara mayors reject Akşener’s call for candidacy Bianet :: English İmamoğlu, Kılıçdaroğlu and Yavaş. Mayors of Ankara and İstanbul have announced support for their party leader amid a crisis in the opposition … Read more
For what it is worth, the CHP-led National Alliance was an exemplary political experiment. Today, Meral Akşener broke ranks with five other opposition parties that formed “Table of Six” on March 3 and said her party would not support main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu as the joint candidate. She stated that her party wanted CHP Istanbul Mayor (İBB) Ekrem İmamoğlu or … Read more
Nation Alliance unveils comprehensive gov’t program with 2,000 specific objectives The six-party Nation Alliance has unveiled its ambitious and comprehensive government program covering nine major areas, 75 subtitles with more than 2,000 targets to overhaul the governance system, economic policies, foreign policy, education and social policies for placing Türkiye into the league of high-income countries … Read more
Some of my major recent work focuses on pro-government political trolls. I have tracked them since the Gezi Park protests, and alliances within the troll community have continuously changed. Pro-Soylu Ebabil group gradually became a contender to the so-called Pelikan group in recent years. Here are my writings on this topic (chronologically): Saka, E. (2022). … Read more
Ex-Grey Wolves leader, Sinan Ateş, was assassinated in Ankara a few days ago. Sinan Ateş, the ex-president of Grey Wolves, a far-right paramilitary organization and political movement affiliated with the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), was killed in Ankara on Friday (December 30). I learned about him only 5-6 days ago while checking out my Tiktok timeline. … Read more
A former professor of mine asked me my opinion about an opinion piece at Washington Post. This helped to think about the Imamoğlu case. The trial is a political one and in the long run, those who are responsible will be ashamed of this sentencing. However, I do not share the logic that this will … Read more
So, the prosecutor wants to ban the Mayor of Istanbul from politics for "insulting the judiciary" (complaining that the first election he won was cancelled and he had to win all over again). https://t.co/qRx50bDbRX — Ankaralı Jan (@06JAnk) December 14, 2022 In another milestone for Turkey’s advanced democracy, Ekrem Imamoglu, the opposition mayor of … Read more
After legislating the so-called “disinformation law” they have posed like that. In fact, no shame for some. Üç utanç vesikası: 1. Yolsuzlukları aklama hatırası2. Dokunulmazlıkları kaldırma hatırası3. Sansür yasası hatırası Dursunlar burada. Bir gün gelir hesap döner… pic.twitter.com/VxkaasAr9V — Karabekir Akkoyunlu (@ulu_manitu) October 13, 2022 The Challenge of Cracking Iran’s Internet Blockade Wired Top … Read more
Turkey's state Information Technology and Communication Institution is being fed every internet user's personal data and internet activity, it is revealed. https://t.co/uvNhWkxc1L — Ankaralı Jan (@06JAnk) July 21, 2022 Turkish government agency collecting every activity of Internet users – report News originally in Turkish Poll: Turkey’s ruling alliance losing against opposition • Bianet :: English … Read more
Court of Cassation upholds Kaftancıoğlu’s prison sentence with a political ban Bianet :: English The CHP İstanbul head was sentenced to prison on five separate charges. The top appeals court has upheld three of them and imposed a political ban on Kaftancıoğlu. Key Turkish opposition figure banned from politics after anti-Erdoğan tweet World news: Turkey Fears … Read more
This image from his campaign bus triggered understandable reactions in the opposition. Some of the columnists in this photo helped build up an autocratic regime and had never really apologized for that. Although İmamoğlu triggered hopes for the future and his win in İstanbul is a plus, he is too ambitious and reminds me of … Read more